mean proportional
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mean proportional
First recorded in 1565–75
Example Sentences
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When 5 and 20 are given, x is a mean proportional when in 5, x, 20, 5 is to x as x to 20.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
Was his confounding two mean proportionals with one mean proportional found twice over a trick of the same intent? if so, it beats cockfighting.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
Then the whole line CZ is 139,655; and CS, which is a mean proportional between CZ and CO will be 93,410.
From Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens
To find a mean proportional between two given straight lines.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
If 4 quantities are in proportion and the second is a mean proportional between the third and fourth, prove that the third will be a mean prop. between the first and second.
From A Review of Algebra by Romeyn Henry Rivenburg
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